Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote: >> I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a >> standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best >> to deal with a peculiar situation. >> >> I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, >> not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format >> maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see >> what device name has been assigned to the drive, umount it, and do >> whatever - e2fsck, tune2fs, etc. But when I'm finish doing >> maintenance, how to I remount it without pulling the USB cable, >> waiting a while, and reinserting the cable? Is there a console command >> that I can type that avoids the extra wear on the fragile little >> connectors and plugs? I'm looking for something that retriggers the >> look-up of volume label and the creation of a mount-point in /media as >> was there before I started mucking about. > > This thread seems interesting
Yes, it should solve the problem, but I would still like to understand why hal/udev must remove the device links in /dev/. The OP in the thread wants hal to act as if the device was just plugged. I do not want hal's routines to be triggered again, I just want to be able to mount manually my drive. I will look around to see if I can configure hal not to remove device files, and to understand why it's configured that way by default. > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/re-detectmount-usb-hard-drive-623089/ > > (the first hit when I googled: hal redetect devices) I do not want hal to rededect devices, but it wa a good shot. ;) Thanks, Tiago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
